The real electoral battleground: the suburbs

More than half of all Americans live in suburbs, and they’ll decide the 2008 presidential election, write Joel Kotkin and Mark Schill for politico.com.

We believe Americans’ political perspective — if not their final voting behavior — is largely shaped not so much by their state but, rather, by the type of place they reside in….We believe the most effective breakdown of how Americans live can be seen in three basic geographic forms: the urban, suburban and small town/rural.